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Man finds rarest Nintendo in Dad’s junk (9 Photos and Video)

One man may have found one of the rarest of gaming treasures just sitting in his garage (as all of those stories tend to start).

Imgur user DanDiebold says this strange Super Nintendo look-a-like belonged to his dad. So what the heck is it?

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A brief history lesson. In 1991 Nintendo partnered with Sony to make a SNES CD-Rom add on only to cancel the deal the day Sony announced it to make another deal with Phillips. It’s what eventually lead to the creation of the Playstation.

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Phillips would go on to release the CD-I, which produced some of the worst games in the history of the hobby. The Sony/Nintendo Play Station was never put into production, and no one knows just how many prototypes like this one even exist.

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As if finding this rare unicorn wasn’t enough the story behind it makes it’s discovery even juicier. Particularly because of who DanDiebold suggests it had belonged to originally.

He says “My dad worked for a company, apparently one of the guys he used to work with, I think his name was Olaf, used to work at Nintendo and when my dad’s company went bankrupt, my dad found it in a box of ‘junk’ he was supposed to throw out”.

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“Olaf” most likely does not refer to an anthropomorphic snowman, but rather the co-founder, president and chief executive officer of Sony Interactive Entertainment back in 1991, Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson who went by Olaf professionally.

So not only did he find one of the rarest machines ever created, it seems it likely belonged to big man himself.

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Check out a few more photos of the box, and a video of some of the worst the Phillips CD-I was capable of at the end.

UPDATE: Originally we linked to a video of terrible CD-I games, the video and video link has been replaced to be of the discoverer giving a walkthrough of his find.

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